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Palantir Has a Hand in NIH’s Most Ambitious Health Initiative

By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.07.2026

During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

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The Measured Listener

By Daniel Shanahan, Los Angeles Review of Books | 05.31.2026

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

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These companies help parents try to pick their babies' traits. Experts are wary

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.06.2026

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

Genetic Selection

The start-ups dreaming of creating genetically modified babies

By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.22.2026

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

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State's stem-cell effort criticized in report

By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 01.19.2006
A watchdog group issued a critique Wednesday of the state's 1-year-old stem-cell research institute, calling it ``a great disappointment so...
Human Cloning

Stem cell official on hot seat

By Rebecca Vesely, Oakland Tribune | 01.19.2006
California's new stem cell institute, which voters approved 14 months ago, is falling far short of expectations, and its chairman...
Human Cloning

Group wants stem cell chairman to resign

By Marisa Lagos, San Francisco Examiner | 01.19.2006
A watchdog group called on Bob Klein to step down as chairman of the board overseeing California_s stem cell institute...
Stem Cells

Other states looking to spend public money on stem cell research

By Capitol Weekly, Capitol Weekly | 01.19.2006

During the 2004 elections, supporters of California's Proposition 71 stem
cell effort said they hoped the initiative would serve as...

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Disgraced cloning pioneer could keep his patents

By Barry Fox, New Scientist | 01.18.2006
A patent application, filed by disgraced stem cell scientist Woo Suk Hwang and colleagues and based on work now admitted...
Stem Cells

Stem cell head should quit, group says [California]

By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 01.18.2006
LOS ANGELES - Robert Klein II, the campaign chairman who became the head of the state's stem cell agency's board...
Human Cloning

Opinion: A closer look at stem cell research

By M. L. Tina Stevens and Diane Beeson, Oakland Tribune | 01.18.2006
ONGOING investigations into cloning researcher Hwang Woo Suk's apparently fraudulent results are seeing American researchers and bioethicist apologists disavowing any...
Fact Sheets

Editorial: Hwang's 'Guardian Angel' Owes Us an Explanation

By Chosun Ilbo , Chosun Ilbo | 01.18.2006

The presidential advisor for science and technology Park Ky-young received research grants of W150 million (US$150,000) and W100 million in...

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